Category: Jobs/Trainings

NCDMB Donates Multi-Million Naira Vocational Centre to University of Ibadan

ADEOLA YUSUF

Wabote Harps on Technical Education, describes completion, handing over of facility as an important milestone in Nigerian content development   The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Friday handed over the University of Ibadan Vocational School which it constructed in line with its capacity-building mandate and the Nigerian Content 10-year strategic roadmap. Handing over the facility to the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Kayode Adebowale, the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote described the completion and handing over of the facility as an important milestone…

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U-TURN: Buhari Awards Tompolo Multi-Billion Pipeline Protection Contracts

Efe Wellington

Buhari who stopped a similar contract initiated by his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, reverses self as Nigeria’s loss to crude theft surpasses $40 million every 24 hours   Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has awarded the former militant leader and Commander of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo, a pipeline surveillance contract. Platforms Africa reports that this came as the Nigeria’s losses to oil theft surpasses $40 milliin every 24 hours. Buhari who stopped a similar contract initiated by his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan,…

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National Integration: Awosika Chairs NIPR Citizens Summit

Precious Ibekwe

The need to foster national integration, rebuild peace and strengthen security takes centre stage in the days ahead as the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) in collaboration with 70 organizations holds the grand finale of its Citizens Summit for National Integration, Peace & Security in Abuja. Announcing the confirmation of Dr. Mrs. Dere Awosika, Chairman of Access Bank Plc as the Chair of the Summit, the President of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Mallam Mukhtar Sirajo said the 2-day event provides a robust platform for Nigerians to…

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How Nigeria Lost $380bn, 2m Jobs To Capital Fight – NCDMB

Abibat Babalola

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has revealed how Nigeria lost over $380 billion to capital flight and two million jobs in 50 years. Platforms Africa reports that Executive Secretary, NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Wabote at the fifth annual Valuechain lecture and awards held in Abuja, said the nation also lost the opportunity cost for in-country capacity development and value addition. READ ALSO: Shell, AFC, GTBank, 6 Other Banks Drag Aiteo to Court Over $2bn Debts EXCLUSIVE: Buhari Declines Ministerial Consent For ExxonMobil $1.6bn Assets’ Sale To Seplat Lagos…

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Kwara Inks Minimum Wage Deals with Varsity, Poly Staff

Aliyu Aliyu

Kwara State Government on Monday signed an agreement with the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council on the implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage and consequential adjustment for non-teaching staff at the Colleges of Education, Kwara State Polytechnic and College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies. The agreement, among other things, set the effective date for the implementation of the new minimum wage covering the concerned workers at the tertiary institutions on July 1, 2022. Recall that the state government had started the implementation of minimum wage for workers on grade…

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JUST IN: 79,000 Staff, Investment For Review As Buhari Unveils “new NNPC”

ADEOLA YUSUF

BUSINESS UNUSUAL: Platforms Africa reports that baggage and burden of old NNPC to be shed through the right-sizing of unnecessary investments and bloated staff strength, while the sale of shares through IPO will begin in phases   Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, July 19 unveiled the new Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited ( NNPC LTD) in a ceremony that officially marks the transitioning of the oil firm from a state-run entity to a fully commercialised oil company, limited by shares. Platforms Africa reports that with this development, the oil…

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BREAKING: Ghana Announces 15% Pay Rise For Workers

Aoko Benjamin

President Nana Akufo-Addo says Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) is to cushion inflation Starting from July 2022, each public worker in Ghana would have a 15 per cent raise in his or her wages. Platforms Africa reports that this pay rise is to reflect current economic situation in the West African country, particularly to cushion the effect of skyrocketing inflation that has beset it in recent years, which has greatly reduced the general quality of living. Named Cost of living Allowance (COLA), the move is the major highlight of the…

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Community Disrupts OML 30 Operations Over Kinsmen Sack

Abibat Babalola

  The indigenes of Olomoro Community in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta Stat have shut down operations of Oil Mining Lease 30 operated by the Heritage Energy Oil Services Limited. The aggrieved indigenes of the host community on Sunday converged on the entrance of the oil firm in a peaceful protest. READ ALSO EXCLUSIVE: Buhari Removes Ag Accountant-General 28 Days After Appointmentl EXCLUSIVE: Buhari Declines Ministerial Consent For ExxonMobil $1.6bn Assets’ Sale To Seplat Oil Theft: Fact And Figures Of A National Emergency, By Adeola Yusuf Shell, Host…

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News Buhari Sacked Emefiele As CBN Gov Fake – Presidency

Gbenga Adeoti

Emefiele who obtained through proxy with the sum of N100 million the presidential nomination form of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has earlier sought the Court’s protection to remain in office while he is vying for President, a move many considered an abuse of office   The news making the rounds that President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked Godwin Emefiele as the Governor of Central Bank (CBN) is fake, Platforms Africa reports. Different sources at the Presidency confirmed to this reputable media group that contrary to the report published by…

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ExxonMobil Rescinds Sack of Nigerian Staff, Ernest Omo-Ojo, After 3 Years

ADEOLA YUSUF

The banters. The battle. The backslide. Platforms Africa reports how, after Court confrontations, the Nigerian oil minister Timipre Sylva’s Mediation led to the withdrawal of the sack letter issued to Omo-Ojo,  ex-staff at the Media and Communications unit of the United States (U.S) oil giant, in June 2019   After three years search for justice, reprieve finally came the way of Ernest Ivie Omo-Ojo, a Nigerian ex-worker with United States oil super major, ExxonMobil, Platforms Africa reports. This reputable media group had, in an exclusive story published  on August 14,…

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